Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American
novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He was part of the 1920s
expatriate community in Paris, as well as the veterans of World War One
later known as "the Lost Generation", as described in his posthumous
memoir A Moveable Feast. ("'That's what you are. That's what you all
are,' Miss Stein said. 'All of you young people who served in the war.
You are a lost generation.'" Stein had overheard a garage owner use the
phrase to criticize a mechanic.) He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953
for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

Hemingway's
distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and
understatement, in contrast to the style of his literary rival William
Faulkner. It had a significant influence on the development of
twentieth-century fiction writing. His protagonists are typically stoic
men who exhibit an ideal described as "grace under pressure." Many of
his works are now considered canonical in American literature.